US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on May 19 for "Instruction merging and induction variable replacement" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,299, issued on May 19, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Instruction merging and induction variable replacement" was invented by Nicole Khoun (Whitby, Canada), Wei Wang (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.) and Prasanth Chatarasi (White Plains, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Induction variable replacement (IVR) reduces operations in program loops. An IVR candidate is identified in a loop comprising linearly chained operations. The IVR candidate is derived from a basic induction variable (IV). A composite memory operation proceeding the IVR candidate is converted to unified form. Offset and increment inform...